macrumors 604

The iPod Touch could carry the virus, if a file you downloaded had it, but there's no way for it to spread in the file system, it would just stay in that one file. Only if you were to pull it out using the built-in iTunes file share and put it in your hard drive would it be an issue.

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You do not have to put an infected file on an iPod for a virus to get on it. Just plugging any USB device with storage space can get a virus and then when the device is plugged into an uninfected computer the virus will spread on to that computer even if it is and iOS device. The virus will sit there and do nothing because it doesn't know or understand the OS it is on but once it sees the Windows file system it will run.

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It is not impossible, but highly unlikely. Just because it has a hard drive does not necessarily mean that it can pick up a virus automatically though. Only Apple makes the software and hardware (no third parties) and the only recognized file formats are media files. Nothing is virus proof, but Apple products are not affected by PC viruses since they use different file types.

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